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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 02:11 AM
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Boy, I'm relieved Bush won't appoint justices who support Dred Scott!
Kerry hit the question of the Supreme Court head-on. I liked his Justice Potter Stewart example (by the way, Kerry should have noted that Stewart was appointed by a GOP president, Eisenhower). Meanwhile the chimp is reasuring the American people that his appointees will not support (the long overturned) Dred Scott decision.
What a relief!!
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StlMo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 02:19 AM
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1. So Bush is flip-flopping on slavery?
After all, Bush admitted that he preferred dictatorships - a form of government where most citizens are effectively slaves.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 02:22 AM
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3. yep another flip flop for the wild-eyed Chimp
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Caria Donating Member (241 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 02:22 AM
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2. Was he trying
to make up for the racist undertones of his comments about the war? If so, he just dug himself in deeper.

Is there a transcript out yet? Did I really hear Bush ask the audience if they'd heard of Dred Scott?
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 02:23 AM
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5. yeah, I think most of the news organizations online CNN, MSNBC
will have transcripts of the debate. By the way, Welcome to DU!!
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StlMo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 02:29 AM
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7. Welcome to DU, Caria!

Good point, Bush did come off badly in that segment.
Of course, he looked bad all night.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 09:38 AM
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8. Hi Caria!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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StlMo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 07:57 PM
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14. Hi newyawker99!
:hi:
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Katherine2 Donating Member (319 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 02:22 AM
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4. I know, and I wonder why Bush is
the first president to fund any stem cell research? I always thought FDR was a good president -- why didn't he fund stem cell research?
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 02:28 AM
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6. Now Now no wit.
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drdon326 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 09:46 AM
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9. Yeah... I was worried he might appoint justices that support slavery.
just too damn stupid to be president.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 09:55 AM
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10. Yes, but can we believe him?
Edited on Sat Oct-09-04 10:03 AM by Junkdrawer
I think he may well sponsor a Constitutional amendment to return runaway slaves.
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libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 10:01 AM
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11. Could you believe he said that!
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Longhorn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 10:03 AM
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12. Is it just me or was that a racist insult?
Was Bush thinking, "I'll go after the Black vote by showing them that I'm against slavery!"

I ask because I get this sense from Republicans sometimes that they still feel, in this day and age, that they should somehow be given credit if they are against slavery -- as if that view takes a truly open mind!
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 10:04 AM
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13. i thought he was going to keep on going
& say he would appoint judges who would uphold "plessey v. ferguson."

dg
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 08:00 PM
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15. Really
That was a real WTF??? moment.

Yeah, not appointing judges who think slavery is a good thing is proably a good thing.

Maybe you could sort of find your way into the 21st century Mr. Bush???

MzPip
:dem:
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 08:09 PM
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16. google dred scott abortion and discover what he was really referring to.
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